En Garde

En Garde

94 mins | Drama | Dec. 4, 2004

Alice is 16 years old and an introverted girl with a special ability: she hears extraordinary good. When her mother sends her to a Catholic foster home, she remains an outsider in a group of self-confident teenage girls. Only Berivan, a Kurdish refugee who seeks for asylum in Germany, tries to learn more about Alice. They finally become close friends, but Berivan's relationship to an Albanian guy destroys the girls' friendship

En Garde

94 mins | Drama | Dec. 4, 2004

En Garde
Alice is 16 years old and an introverted girl with a special ability: she hears extraordinary good. When her mother sends her to a Catholic foster home, she remains an outsider in a group of self-confident teenage girls. Only Berivan, a Kurdish refugee who seeks for asylum in Germany, tries to learn more about Alice. They finally become close friends, but Berivan's relationship to an Albanian guy destroys the girls' friendship
IMDb rating 7.1
Producers X Filme Creative Pool, ZDF
Original title En Garde
Directors Ayşe Polat
Writers Ayşe Polat

Cast

Pinar Erincin

as Berivan

Jytte-Merle Böhrnsen

as Josefine

Antje Westermann

as Alices Mutter

Geno Lechner

as Schwester Clara